Every journey worth taking begins with a plan

When it comes to digital transformation, have you started? Is there alignment? Have you enlisted help?

The road to greater operational efficiency and lower costs starts with a hard look at your organization in terms of where you are, what you have and where you want to be.

Companies that have successfully moved past the pilot phase started by evaluating current and future business requirements, technology infrastructure and organizational readiness. This holistic view can help define early on how to make digital transformation work for you and where to start.

With a business-first mindset, begin by identifying  your biggest challenges, the underlying use cases, and key enablers such as the technology, processes and people that solve for them. Along the way, seek out partners with global OT and IT expertise who have been there before and can help you quickly identify and implement repeatable, scalable, cost-effective solutions.

With the right plan in place, successful companies have:

• Articulated the ROI and value of digital transformation
• Developed a clear strategy to improve KPIs like yield, asset and labor utilization, quality, and cost effectiveness
• Gained alignment and drove adoption across their organization

Complex endeavors now within reach

Chart your course with an outcome-based, scalable technology roadmap

Chances are, there’s no shortage of technology requests for point solutions, one-off projects and general firefighting to keep your business operational. And as operations become more connected, this demand has reached new heights.

The key to avoiding unnecessary complexity and disparate solutions across your enterprise is to remain intensely focused on your business objectives. This clarity enables you to look for synergies across your operations and at governance models through a new lens. As a result, you can more easily identify use cases where technology and greater access to data can deliver measurable value.

These use cases are then brought to life in an outcome-based, scalable technology roadmap that:

• communicates a vision
• drives alignment and adoption across geographies and functions
• helps secure the funding to execute

As you seek to simplify, collaborate with Rockwell Automation who can not only consult on strategy, but has lived the digital transformation journey and can walk side by side with you in execution.